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  • this pain, this loss, it's good. Speaker Sam Rayburn was the very first telegram we received after the death of 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • /of Joe McCarth), The $1500 prize, named for the late aide to Sam Rayburn and Hale Boggs. 1s funded from a bequest made to lhe Library by Mr. Hardeman, who him elf was recognized as an authority on the Congress. Previous winners of the prize are Richard
  • of anything specific. He used to kind of gossip but I can't remember what we gossiped about. He was just full of kind of down-home philosophy. G: Would he invite other prominent politicians to these things? Would he have Sam Rayburn or Dick Russell? E: Yes
  • appropriation for four jobs as inspectors. I said to Mr. Terrell, "I "Jish you \-iould give one of these jobs to ~lr. "(l~, Sam Johnson, whom I've met here in the Capitol. II T kno;,: S2m. ~Ip senr~ci said, "1 will do that." iii the legi~,12t~:rc And he
  • was from Tioga, Texas--and I've forgotten just how we got him. But anyway we got Gene Autry, and he agreed to come down and spend some [time campaigning]. F: That's Sam Rayburn country. C: Yes, I think that's exactly right. It was Mr. Rayburn's
  • of the problems was that Mr . (Sam) Rayburn (D-Texas, Speaker of the House) was the sponsor of the man that had gone out and gotten all of the endorsements . Just the other day, Mr . Swygert was reminding me of an incident when he was over to see me in my
  • in it. We did have communications with Washington many, many times in connection with the tidelands issue both with Senator Johnson and Speaker Rayburn. Then we had litigation involving the attendance at the various state schools by Negroes and this was all
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • ; Coke Stevenson; involvement in Washington litigation while LBJ was Senator; the Leland Olds case and the Texas oil industry; Allan Shivers, Adlai Stevenson and Sam Rayburn in the 1952 election; getting the Adlai E. Stevenson/John J. Sparkman Democratic
  • . 3/4/50 The Honorable Sam Rayburn Speaker of the House of Reps. 3/6/50 Vote on S.1008 Conference Report Probably Next Monday or Tuesday in House 3/9/50 Public Library Service Demonstration Bill3/13/50 S.1008 Threat to Robinson-Patman Act Cited
  • CORPS. THOSE WHO DOUBTED HIS SINCERITY. IT CAME IN THAT ELECTRIC MOMENT TO SEVERAL HUNDRED DEMOCRATS IN THE PENTHOUSE BALLROOM OF THE JUNG HOTEL, WHEN LBJ OUOTED AN UNAMED SOUTHERN SENATOR CONFIDING IN SAM RAYBURN ABOUT HIS CONSTITUENCY."ALL THEY EVER
  • CORPS. THOSE WHO DOUBTED HIS SINCERITY. IT CAME IN THAT ELECTRIC MOMENT TO SEVERAL HUNDRED DEMOCRATS IN THE PENTHOUSE BALLROOM OF THE JUNG HOTEL, WHEN LBJ OUOTED AN UNAMED SOUTHERN SENATOR CONFIDING IN SAM RAYBURN ABOUT HIS CONSTITUENCY."ALL THEY EVER
  • then, and he and Sam [Rayburn] were the government. It's true that Eisenhower got some of the things he wanted by means of the veto, but what he got, he got because Lyndon and Sam let him have it. G: Can you recall, for example, his role in the Big Inch
  • , Randolph Gordon, Helen Jewish Corrrnunity Center JOHNSTON., Elizabeth, KOLBERG,Rosamund, LAMBERT, Carroll, Utah State University LiWIS, Cornell, Montganery County Head Start MARLEDGE,Maxine, Omaha Head Start MARTINEZ, Sam NIEMEYER, J .H., Bank St. College
  • probably cannot come they sure think someone should be there to speak for the Senator. 1bey had a couple of suggestions: (1) would be Mr. Rayburn, (2) ~ be Sellator Dodd. "One of the main reasons they are in hopes someone can be there is so they can show
  • Kennedy, and I think Kennedy did for him. I think Kennedy appreciated the fact that it was perhaps Mr. Johnson and Speaker Rayburn, more than anyone else, who made it possible for him to have the dramatic, close race for the vice presidency four years
  • of the New Deal, although there was some age difference, and Senator Russell was in the Senate many years before Senator Johnson came. But he first met Johnson when he was a representative, perhaps with Mr. Rayburn or with someone else. So when he came over
  • Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy ~~ XIV 13 fact that Sam Houston [Johnson
  • a constitutional two-thirds; change in the Republican Party; Knowland and Dirksen; nepotism in Congressional offices; Sam Houston Johnson; LBJ’s disinterest in the Senate; civil rights bill and related activities; committee assignments; William Proxmire; party
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings
  • to serve or--? J: No, I think Johnson was willing to serve and felt it was needed. G: The others were Sam Ervin and John Stennis, is that right? J: Yes, Ervin and all of them had a good deal of guts. G: Yes. The story is told that at one point when
  • connection. K: That's right. They left us. There's no question about it. And of course why Johnson did not always have a hundred per cent support of the oil people I'm unable to explain, because Johnson and Sam Rayburn did nore to keep in the twenty
  • . It really wasn't a compromise, we just decided that this was the way we were going to do it. We were going to have Sam Rayburn and Johnson sitting in the front row of the audience, and this event was going to be telecast on statewide television. We would
  • was then in the leadership. I came to know Sam Rayburn very well, and asked his advice on important problems. F: Right. M: But we always got along very well. Then, in those days, the members got one two-room office in any of the buildings, except on the fifth floor
  • about the McCarthy censure in your earlier interview. S: Well then, if I've covered it, there's no reason to go over it again. There is a question that you raise here about why did Senator Johnson ; appoint Ed Johnson, John Stennis, and Sam Ervin
  • of Representatives of the State of Texas, ever mindful or the important role played by distinguished sons of Texas in the affairs of our Nation since Sam Houston, make this expression of our gratitude to Vice President Henry A. Wallace f or selecting a worthy
  • 9, 1938, to Colonel James Roosevelt from Honorable Lyndon B. Johnson, Representative in Congress, in connection with the possibility of purchasing electric energy required by War Department activities in the Fort Sam Houston, Texas, area from
  • anything like that is circulated through the whole bloody government. But I broke into a Texas delegation where [Sam] Rayburn and Johnson were, and got them to sign that. I hand carried it over to the White House and took it in--Jack Kennedy knew about
  • Prime Minister Wilson Visit Smithsonian (Mrs. Johnson's gown) Sam Rayburn Dedication Prime Minister of Japan visit (Sarah Vaughan performing) Inauguration THIS Committee (The Hospitality and Information Service – White House Tour Book translation
  • Kennedy-F: Did you get the impression he'd placed too much faith in the power of the Senate? H: That, and I think he also placed too much faith in the power of his old friend, the House Speaker, Sam Rayburn, and a few of the key Democrats throughout
  • think they were building destroyers, weren't they? G: Ships. B: No, they were small ships of some kind. But Sam Rayburn came down and Johnson came down and I think Jesse Jones was there. newspapers in Houston gave it a big spread. down from Austin
  • was the national committeeman from Pennsylvania. M· What kind of contact did you have with him in those early days? B: Most of the time it was on legislation, the City of Pittsburgh. friend Sam Rayburn, else, particularly legislation affecting He always took
  • couldn't do that in Chicago. I was going to help him on that when we got back to New York the next morning. Then when I got up the next morning, Sam Rayburn had already had his talk with Lyndon and it was set the other way, and that was that. So, yes
  • , a long­ time Texas Democrat who had become an Eisenhower Republican. Anderson was very close to LBJ and other Texas Democrats, especially Sam Rayburn. Not long after I arrived at Treasury, Anderson surprised me by sending me up on a solo visit to LBJ
  • for Membership Forms Dedication of Sam Rayburn Statue Texas State Society files [undated] Books – Law Reviews, Historical Facts, Transportation Situations, etc. Date Range 1941 - 1968 1941 - 1968 1941 - 1968 1941 - 1968 1941 - 1968 1941 - 1968 1941 - 1968 1941
  • gete by the desks. Probably from owner's or ders . The Dallas Ti me s e r a l d c arries e ver y comp) i mentn ry c rto on showing Rayburn declaring Garner the greate st Texan since Se.m Houston. Went to Denton Satur day nd worked do •a through small
  • to the Library. One recent acquisition is a 1903 photograph of Sam Rayburn's graduating class from East Texas Normal College in Commerce, Texas. These photographs are placed in the photo archives and are used by researchers and as display material A recent
  • in Congress. Speaker Sam Rayburn took Congressman Johnson under his wing. LBJ w· s a court favorite of Franklin Roosevelt's. And formidable Georgia Senator Richard u sell first made LBJ minority leader and then majority leader of the Senate. Harry Truman did